Lecture	Date	Slides	Reference Papers
Lecture 1: Introduction	20/09/2021	Slides	[2003 Di Benedetto] Ultra Wide Band (UWB) Wireless Communications - A Tutorial
Lecture 2: UWB Signals	04/10/2021	Slides	-
Lecture 3: UWB Spectral Analysis	11/10/2021	Slides	-
Lecture 4: Link Budget	18/10/2021	Slides	-
Lecture 5: Receivers in AWGN	25/10/2021	Slides	-
Lecture 6: Pulse Shaping in IR-UWB systems	05/11/2021	Slides	[2006 Di Benedetto - De Nardis] Tuning UWB signals by pulse shaping - Towards context-aware wireless networks
Lecture 7: Multi User Interference in IR-UWB networks	08/11/2021	Slides	[2006 Giancola - Di Benedetto] A novel approach for estimating multi-user interference in impulse radio UWB networks - The pulse collision model
Lecture 8: Ranging and Positioning in UWB	15/11/2021	Slides	[2005 Gezici] Localization via Ultra-Wideband Radios - A look at positioning aspects of future sensor networks
Lecture 9: Terahertz Communications	22/11/2021	Slides	-
Lecture 10: Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access	29/11/2021	Slides	M.T.P. Le, G.C. Ferrante, T.Q.S. Quek and M.-G. Di Benedetto, Fundamental Limits of Low-Density Spreading NOMA with Fading, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 17, no. 7, pp. 4648-4659, July 2018.

Practice	Date	Slides	Files and reference papers	Solution
Practice 1: Introduction to MATLAB	24/09/2021	Slides	-	-
Practice 2: MATLAB Problems	27/09/2021	Slides	Additional problem 1	Solution Solution to additional problem 1
Practice 3: Introduction to UWB	01/10/2021	Slides	-	Solution
Practice 4: Generation of UWB signals	08/10/2021	Slides	-	Solution
Practice 5: Spectral Characteristics of UWB Signals	15/10/2021	Slides	-	Solution
Practice 6: Link budget	22/10/2021	Slides	Sheng H., Orlik P., Haimovich A.M., Cimini Jr. L.J., Zhang J., "On the Spectral and Power Requirements for Ultra Wideband Transmission," IEEE International Conference on Communications, Volume: 1, (May 2003), 738-742.	Solution
Practice 7: UWB receivers	29/10/2021	Slides	-	Solution
Practice 08: Pulse shaping	05/11/2021	Slides	Support files	Solution
Practice 9: MUI in UWB networks	11/11/2021	Slides	-	Solution
Practice 10: Experiments with the Decawave DWM1001-DEV	19/11/2021	Slides	-	-
Practice 11: Ranging and Positioning	03/12/2021	Slides	Support files

Ultra Wide Band (UWB) Radio Fundamentals

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